Posted on 03/13/2009 12:49:26 PM PDT by SolidWood
WASHINGTON -- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said this week that the waters off the Atlantic coast hold some of the country's greatest wind energy potential, and he promised to move aggressively to develop plans to exploit the resource.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Salazar also said he wants to review objections to oil and gas leasing in Alaska's Bristol Bay and the Chukchi Sea, where environmentalists argue that the threat to fisheries and polar bears has not been adequately examined, and off Virginia, where the governor has raised concerns.
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You see, wind energy won’t reduce our use of Saudi oil by a single penny.
Thats the point. Most of these enviros are shills for the Saudis.
Salazar has delayed completing the environmental impact statement for Beaufort Sea and Chukchi Sea planning areas oil and gas lease sales 209, 212, 217 and 221.
MMS extends draft EIS comment period
http://www.petroleumnews.com/pnads/499525687.shtml
Relying on “green energy” is like trying to fight World War II by outlawing all conventional weapons, in the hope that Death Ray weapons would be researched and manufactured in time. I hope that we can develop wind and solar energy eventually, but it’s unbelievably foolish to throw away what we know works.
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